The Sun. — London, England, 1864-08-12 00:00:00

LONDON, 14'itIDAY, AUGUST 12, 1864. The waning of the splendour of cur flower gar dens is among the regular signs of the passing away of summer ; and the autumnal months, though lighting the monarchs of the woods with tints and shades which some think eclipse even the fresh ver dure of the spring, are only looked to by the humble )rieulturist as bringing the first signs of decay and desolation. The limited gardens in the metropolis and its vicinity generally give early evidence of the change, perhaps because their owners are in the habit of taking flight themselves early in autumn, and are therefore indifferent to the appearance of their gardens and conservatories when the reign of the rose is over. There is very little doubt that, with proper care in the selection of plants, and a dae regard to their natural seasons for flowering, a garden even in this climate may be induced to pre serve a cheerful appearance through the greater part of the year. This is the fact which Sir JOSEPH PAXTON, no mean authority in the art of external decoration, has taken the opportunity of bringing under public notice in a letter addressed to the assistant secretary of the Royal Horticultural So ciet y. Now the din of Parliamentary battle is for awhile suspended, and argument, lamentation, and recrimination have been well nigh exhausted about the Danish Duchies—while the American war goes on its endless round, and we have no more exciting subject to divert our attention than murders and suicides, experiments at Shoeburyness, and madmen in railway carriages, Sir JosErs PAXTON pro bably supposes that his remarks on the principles of horticulture generally are less likely to pass un• heeded than in the earlier days of the season. Per haps he thought, too, that the moral of his story would receive a better illustration now than when flowers abound on every side, and botanic shows and exhibitions are the order of the day. It is with regard to the merits and defects of these exhibitions that Sir JOSEPH PAXTON has written his letter, having been requested to give his opinion as to the nature and character of the exhibitions which it is most desirable that the Royal Horticultural Society should encourage for " the true advancement of horticulture and its accompanying sciences. In the first place, S:r JOSEPH is by no means satisfied with the existing state of things, notwithstand ing the gorgeous array visible at some of oar flower shows. The general condition of our horticulture is he considers artificial and unnatural, and he attributes this principally to the arrange ment of our exhibitions. They have, he considers, been advantageous in encouraging improvements in the culture and management of plants, but the good which they have effected has not been unmixed. 0 miog to the time of the year in which they are held, the efforts of cultivators are exclusively directed to the production of such plants as will bloom at the London season, to the total disregard of all other periods.. Some plants are forced, others are artificially kept back, so that all may flower together, thus crowding into a month or two the ornament, of the year, and entirely neglect ing those plants which will not submit to suebL meddlesome interference. Some years ego, the critic tells us, he called to see a first class Lon don garden of great repute. It was an exhibition thy, and so only a few lonely plants were visible. ho caltzd later in the season, but the show d a ys wore altogether over, so t h ere was no more to ba r see n, for the training syst em h ad begun, and all w , in preparation for the next year's competition. If the efforts of the Horticultural Society are directed to securing the greatest number and most beautiful display of plants in the haltdozen exhi bition days o f the London season they are certainly successful, but if their object 'is rather to en. courage horticulture as a science, then these " spasmodic efforts, " as Sir JOSEPH PAXTON terms them, which leave a groat part of the year unemployed and unproductive, are not altogether satisfactory. The exhibition system has certainly succeeded in producing a wonderful degree of perfection in those kinds of flowers which are exhibited, and they have also given a stimulus to the culture of foliage plants which preserve a garden from the desolation of winter, still there remains; a good deal more to be done before the objects of the society are frilly attained. The true object of horticulture, according to Sir JOSEPH PAXTON'S view, is "to increase the enjoyment de= rivable from it, and to diffuse it as widely as pos• Bible ; to enable the owners of gardens to get the greatest amount of pleasure and satisfaction from their possessions, and to enable the general public to procure the greatest number of fruit, flowers, and vegetables, in the greatest quantity, of the best ktnds, and at the cheapest prices." These are certainly all matters of public concern, and, indeed, since the new fashion of choosing suburban residences has heen so exten sively followed, great numbers are interested in the consideration of the best method of gardening, who of old scarcely gave a thought to the matter. It is one of the most graceful of sciences, while the cul ture of these beautiful works oi nature is among the most innocent and healthful of recreations for the mind and exhausted energies. Its tendency is soothing and refining, and is to be by no means despised as a means of diffusing taste and cultiva tion. Let us see how Sir JOSEPH PAXTON proposes i ,to encourage this taste. There should, he thinks, be something like a continuous exhibition, so that gardeners should have no interest in forcing their plants into flower at unnatural seasons, nor should they be induced to neglect those which blossom at un fashionable times of the year. At one time the Horticultural Society had fortnightly shows at their great room in Regent-street, where nursery men brought their new plants or fruits, or any unusually beautiful specimens at any time of the year. This was, Sir JOSEPH thinks, a very bene ficial practice, and he proposes that * something of the kind should be restored. During the spring and summer months he would have the exhibitions weekly, and have them held in a place where they might be suffered, when owned by nurserymen, to remain all the time they were in flower. This would be independent of the great exhibitions which are too beautiful and too fashionable to be altogether abandoned, but some supplementary effort of the kind would probably do great good. Weekly or fortnightly exhibitions would probably be too frequent at least at first, but monthly or quarterly shows might with advantage be este. bashed. At all events the question is sufficiently interesting to deserve attentive consideration. The Report of the Directors of Convict Prisons is now published, and its contents are sure to attract attention at this juncture, since so much excitement has prevailed on the subject for some time, and during the past session so much pains was taken to effect some desirable changes in the department re lating to, convict discipline. It was time that the question again underwent revision, for grievous errors had crept into the management, and if no• thing of a remedial nature had been done it is diffi cult to say at what point the evil would have stopped, and at all events it wouid have been more tedious to make a change. The greatest care and attention appears generally to be exercised by the authorities whose special duty it is to have the supervision of these unhappy outcasts; but it is a very difficult thing to determine which is the best mode of treatment, and after the mature delibera tions of experienced men of all kinds, the matter has to be left to the test of practice. That teat has shown ns that the latest attempt to temporise with crime, as it were, has been an utter failure. Stern and vigorous treatment 13 the only right coarse to pursue; it is useless to adopt a line of action which may make the working of the prison run line more easy and successful for the time, but infallibly re ,, sults in the production of serious evils, both to the men themselves and society at large. Two causes of the late plan pursued of rendering the term of imprisonment so easy to pass and so shorn of the terrors of the law tended to swell the lists of returned prisoners. In the first place, the notion of penal ser vitude was in a great measure divested of its horrors by the facile manner in which the prisoners were treated ; and, secondly, the easy life passed in their bondage did not improve the check that a course of salutary discipline would most probably have effected. On all accounts it is very satisfactory to know that a change has come over the spirit of this dream of utopian convict life, for the reaction would have been great after co much false laxity and moderation had been shown. The plans now pro posed are but simple modifications of the system, bat they are begun in the right spirit, and if not found to be sufficiently stringent, it will be easy to make still more severe regulations. The Directors have made a most elaborate statement, and been at great pains to present a fair estimate of the state of each prison. It will be seen that the ticket-of leave system was in want of some change in consequence of the number of re - convictions. The number of the female prisoners who were re convicted has hitherto been much less than that of the males, but of late years there has been a great increase. The cause of this unhappy augmentation has been said to be the " comparatively short sen tences of recent years, the want of means for assisting and supervi'sing them on discharge, and in some degree, perhaps, from defective prison arrangements." Doubtless the short sentences that have been passed of late years have done great harm, for in the cases of the most desperate assaults it has often happened that a most inade quate term for confinement has been apportioned. It is a most unwise thing, for the ends of justice are not answered by this means, and all reports agree in denouncing the practice. The criminals come to consider the whole affair of the trial, sen tence, and imprisonment, as a sort of farce, and one merely to be got through as quick as possible. The question of providing shelter and employment for the discharged prisoners, especially the female ones, is a very serious consideration. It is a pain ful picture which the returns present to us of these fallen creatures, driven from one place to another, till in sheer desperation they are often compelled to take refuge with their old associates. Besides, the prisoners who show every desire to become reformed members of society, the wavering and even evil dis posed mieht often be reclaimed if the right means were at hand on a timely opportunity. It is im possible to define a limit to the number who would be induced to change their ways, if immediately after they emerge from the quiet and comparative innocence of their course in prison some fitting em ployment were ready for them. This again proves the desirability of sending convicts who are sentenced for long periods to Western Australia. Th e i r removal would leave more scope for their confederates in crime whose shorter sentences send them oat again on the world after a brief period of detention. In the contemplation of reports many only look to the sta• tisticai part of the affair, as to how many suffered imprisonment, for wh a t cause they were convicted, and how often they were re-convic ecl ; but apart from these established facts there are grave matters to reflect upon concerning the inner details of those lives of which we are furnished with ho broad out lines. Uatil some important change has been effected in that branch of prison management which refers to the career of the prieone: after he has left prison, there will always be much to deplore and lament in the returns presented to notice every successive year. Some very desirable changes have been made at Millbank, in pursuance of the advice tendered by the Comuaission of 1863. The period of separate confinement which each convict has to undergo at the commencement of his term of imprisonment has been rendered more in accordance with the spirit of such a sentence, than only the latter, as has hitherto been too much the case, and already some beneficial changes have been observed. It has also been agreed upon to alter the dietary in the prisons, and in consequence of this revolution an amended form has been instituted, which involves a very large reduction is the old scale of diet. Nearly one day's food in the week has been struck off the aggregate allowance. This is a very wise alteration, and it is to be hoped that the same course will be pursued in all prisons, and persisted in notwithstanding any temporary out breaks or disturbances that may result therefrom. It stands to reason that the old fashion of pamper ing prisoners was a very impolitic one, and likely to be productive of the worst effects as regarded discipline, and involving a salutary change in the lives arid dispositions of these men. The arrange ments have also been altered regarding the public work prisons, and more strict rules laid down. The sub-divisions made will make separation between the prisoners more than has hitherto been the case, and this again will doubtless operate to effect a salutary change, it having been shown that there were " evils attendant on the massing together of such large bodies of convicts as are assembled on the public works." A very satisfactory account is given of the successes met with by the Prisoners' Aid Society. It is stated that no less than five hundred and odd cases were undertaken by it in one year, and the large majo rity of these were satisfactorily provided for. At the conclusion of this report a very proper tribute is paid to the memory of Sir JOSHUA JEBB, With out doubt he rendered great and importazt services to the State by the zeal and ability which he dis played in the conduct of the intricate affairs which he was called upon to manage, and it is truly stated here that, whatever changes recent experience may deem desirable, " no one conversant with the state of the hulks and English prisons when he was called on by the Government to undertake their manage ment, can fail to acknowledge the debt of gratitude that is due to the late Sir JOSUHA JEBB." yr. ALFRED MELLON'S CONCERTS EVERY . EVENING, at Eight.—ROYAL ITALIAN ciPt..ttA, COVENT-GARDEN. The fo owing Artistes will appear This Evening :—Mdlle. r Carlotta Patti, Mdlle. Marie Krebs ; Mr. Levy, Mr. Carrodus, Ali Ben Sou-alle. and Mr. Alfred Mellen's GLEE UNION. Grand Operatic Selection from LA FAVOi;ITA. BAND OF ONE HUNDBED PEItFOR3IERS. Conductor, Mr. ALFRED 31ELLON. Promenade, Amphitheatre Stalls, and Amphitheatre, One To-morrow (Saturday!, the First Vo:unteer Night. OYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.— im Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. Geo. Vining. THIS EVENING, BORN TO GOOD LUCK. Paddy O'Rafferty, Mr. Dominick Murray. Alter which, THE STREETS OF LONDON. Messrs. Vining, J. W. Ray, D. Fi her. D. Murray, J. Nelson, H. Torre- ter. H. Mellon ; Mrs. Henry Maiston, Miss Emma Barnett, and Miss Fanny Gwynne. Ar THEATRE-R0 YAL, ADELPHI.- 6 , )in Proorti , tor arid Manacrer. M. B. Webster. THIS EVENING, THE FLOWERS OF THE F3REST. iltssrs. J. L. Toole, P. Bedfora, BillinQton, Stuart, Stephen n .tom r; Miss Woolgar, Miss K. Kelly. and Mrs. BB jug! on. After which, at 10, THE ACTOR'S RETREAT. Messrs. J. L. Tooie, P. Bedford, K. Philii, 3, and Miss I,Voolg, r o conclude with a new Farce, called MY WI r Messrs. J. L. Toole, P. Bedford, B. Phil li p s, and 2 g ir,. Alfred Mellon. Commence at 7. ROYAL ST. JAMES'S 'THEATRE. under the management of Mr. B. WEBSTER. Last Night of the present Season. THIS EVENING (Friday), 12th August, for the Benefit of Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Mathews, and last night of their enga.ge men , a new comedy, in 3 acts, by Arthur Sket hiey, E sq. At 7 o'clock the perform nce will commence nith an en tirely new and original onaedy, entitled HOW WILL THEY GET OUT OF IT ? Character • by Mr. and Mrs. C. Mathews, Mr. and Mrs F rank Matthews, Mr. ii'. i tob mson , Mr. H. J. Montague, Miss Wentworth, and Mrs. Stirluir To be followed by the new Travestie, entitled FAUST AND - 31 A.RGUERITE Mr. (-has. Mathews, Mr. J Clarke, Mr Ashley, Mr. Montague, Mr. W . H. Eburne, Mr. W. Cliamberlaine, and Mrs. C. Mathew,. To conclude with UNDER THE ROSE. Mr. Ashley, and Miss A. CottrelL COUNTRY and SEASIDE DRESSES. Messrs. JAI, of Rezent-street, have now in stack a variety of WASHING ; , f RLK DESS.tS, suitatle for the country and seaside, and at the c.earing-out price of only its. 6d. the dress. JAY'S, 247, 249, and 231, Regent-street. BLACK SILKS.—The price of Silks in the raw material has already r. sen 15 per cent, and it will soon reach a far greater per-tentage. Messrs. JaY, thereto, e, invite their numerous patrons to take advantage of the stock they have on hand, which they can now dispose of on favour able terms; but the same qualities will naturally b; more costly ai the price of silk fluctuates to a higher average JAY'S, 217, 210, and 251, Regent-street. COALS. —The LILLESHALL COMPANY'S COAL Direct from their own Collieries. Marquis'.......23s. per ton. I Double 20s. per ton. T o p 225. „ lle,p ...215. „ Well screened and delivered within live miles of their De pots, Westbourne Park-road, W., and 17, South Wharf, Paddington, W., and Maiden-lane, N. Best Coke Terms cash. JOHN SCOTT, Sole riIHE THIRD EDITION OF " THE SUN," ja. Containing the Latest SPORTING INTELLIGENCE, can be had Every Evening of G. It. GLMNIE, NEWS AGENT, No. 4, Connaught-terrace, Hyde-park. THE LATES I' EDITION of " THE SUN " supplied, as soon as published every Evening by 1-I.t:NRY BROOKS, Newspaper Agent, 21, Old Cavendish street, W. The Weather—Sun Office, Aug. 12, 1861. THERMOMETER. This day at Two o'clock Barometer-30 . 26 . WIND -S.W. ; moderate breeze, and cloudy. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. rws DA.Y.—Morning, Bh. 10m.—Afternoon, 811. 45123 I o..icoßßow.-Morning, 9h. 26m.—Afternoon,' 1012. 24m, 4-1 T ;2,lin SUIT BANK OF FRANCE. (REUTER'S EXPRESS.) PARIS, August 11. The following is the return of the Bank of France for the week, together with the corresponding figures of the previous account : Auclusz 11. AUGUST 4. DR. c. f. c. Capital of the Bank 182,500,000 182,500,000 Profits in addit ion toCapital (Art. 8 law June 9, ; 1657) 5,114,862 43 5,096,101 60 Reserve in the Bank and its branches Reserve in landed property 4,000,000 4,000,003 Notes in circulation 777,023,925 786,629,025 Bank notes to order and re- ceipti payable at sight 6,233,349 15 6,056,549 08 Treasury aco. cur, creditor 57,968,339 40 55,941,233 85 Curreut accounts—Paris 122,254,979 44 126,954,304 14 Do. branch-banks 26,611,833 30,859,591 Dividends payable Disciunta and sundry interests 7,124,840 91 6,308,241 16 Re-discounts of the last ail months 2,588,735 17 2,588,735 17 Sundries 1,231,833,415 85 1,247,860,613 46 CR. Cash in hand and branch- banks 272,433,487 38 276,790,392 90 Commercial bills ov,rdue 3,216,848 11 1,408,652 95 ComuiercialbillsdiscouLtel not yet due ....330,403,019 35 333,825,422 33 .Do. branch-banks.... 303,092,556 312,079,470 Advances on depoksit6 of bullion . Do. branch. banks 3,957,700 4,104,300 Advsn , es on Frenchpublic securities,;.. • • • Do, braich-banks.... 9,412,8.:0 9,511,650 Advancesonrailway shares and debentures .. 27,792,900 28,380,500 Do. branch-banks.... 18,701,050 18,571,050 Advances on Credit Fon- cier Bonds 39.5,000 376.100 80, branch-banks.... 356,900 367,100 Advances to the State (Conv(n. June 10, 1857) 60,000,000 60,000,000 Govt. Stock Reserve 12,b8u,750 14 12,980,750 14 Do. disposable Rentes immobilisees (Law June 9, 1857) 100,000,000 100,000,000 Hotel and furniture of the Bank Landed property, branches Expenses of management 712,921 54 690,476 51 Sundries 231,833,445 85 1,247,360,613 46 Certified by the Honorary Vice-Preeident of the Council of State, Governor of the Bank, AD. VUITRY. The Hospital for Consumption, Brompton. A quarterly general court of the governors of this charity was held yesterday afternoon in the board room of the hospital. The meeting was pre sided over by Sir Peter Van Notten-Pole, Bart. The Secretary read the report of the eommittee of management for the past quarter, which stated that both as regarded in and out-patients there had been an increase of good done as compared with the corresponding quarter of the preceding year. It was, no doubt, chiefly owing to the large number of admissions consequent upon the maximum number of 210 beds having been filled at an earlier period of the winter than usual that the committee was enabled to have the satisfaction of announcing that the number of applicants waiting vacancies was, though still large, less than it had been for some time past. The committee had been encouraged by the accession of several names to the list of goverf nors, and by much valuable aid they had received from the clergy, while their thanks were especially due to the Bishops of Ripon, Bangor, E;y, Ossory, and Down and C onnor f or the able ma nner i n w hi c h they had pl ea d e d t h e cause o f the ch ar i ty. M any kind d onat i ons h a d also resu lt e d f rom the appeals inserted from time t o ti me in the new s p apers , al though the total amount received from twat source had been less than on some previous occasions. Unless, Lowever, the committee chose to seller the charity to languish for want of funds they ,had no alternative but to continue their appeals to the pub lic for support io every way that was open to them, so long as the annual expenditure of the institution exceeded the annual subscriptions to the extent of Upwards of £4.000. With the help of several lega cies that had recently been paid the committee hoped to be enabled before long to effect the desir able object they had long aimed at, and which had peen formerly mentioned, namely, the purchasing of the freehold of the land on which the hospital was built. During the past quarter four bequests to the charity of £lOO each, one of £l,OOO, one of £5OO, one of £3OO, one of £5O, and one of £lO had been announced to the committee. The number of in-patients admitted since the 26th of May last had been 213. Of these 182 had been discharged, many of them greatly benefited, and 23 had died. The number of new out patient cases was stated - to be 1,521. The Hon. E, B. C. WROTTESLEY moved the adoption of the report, which having been seconded by Mr C. E. K. Butler, was adopted; end after the transaction of some business of a formal cha racter, the proceedings closed with the customary vote of thanks to the chairman. CROSSING THE ATLANTIC IN A BOAT.—On Sunday, the 26th of June, the miniature brig Vision, the smallest craft that has ever yet attempted to crois the Atlantic, departed from the Battery at New York, direct for Liverpool. She sailed out in gallant style, with colours flying, manned by a crew consisting of John C. Donovan and his dog Toby, and one man, named Williams, from Rhode Island, Her departure was witnessed by a large number of people, who remained, despite the intense heat, until the vessel became a speck on the water, Yes terday we received information that the Coronet, from Quebec, at London, had spoken the tiny craft at sea, she being then out 24 days, and having reached lat. 45 10 N long. 63 W., cr the vicinity of Cape Race. " All hands" were well, but short of provisions and water, which the Coronet supplied,—Ztiverpoo; Mercury, LATEST INTELLIGENCE LB SUTER'S TELEGRAMS.] AMERICA. (Per the Eztra Steamer Caledonian via Cape Race and Greencastle.) NEW YORK, AUG. 1. On the 30th ult. General Grant blew up a Con federate fort at Petersburg. He then assaulted tind carried a line of Confederate entrenchments. An entire regiment was destroyed together with the fort. The battle was still progressing on Saturday at noon. THE BOMBAY MAIL. The following telegram has been received at Mr. Reuter's office from the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company : SUEZ, AUG. 11. The Behar from Bombay, July 24, reached Suez at 7 p.m. today. WEST INDIA AND PACIFIC MAILS. SOUTHAMPTON, AUG, 12. The Royal Mail Steam Packet Company's ship Seine. with the above mails, has arrived here. She brings 177 passengers, 2,585,301 dollars in specie, and 1,183 packages of general cargo. The Seine left St. Thomas on the 28th tilt. Fine weather prevailed. Her Majesty's ship Devastation left Panama c.n the 11th ult. for Vancouver's Island. At Valparaiso the Congress was engaged in reor ganising the various courts of justice in the Repub lic, and planning the statutes of a National Bank. The deputies are exasperated at the Cabinets withholding from them the correspondence on the Hispans•Pernvian question. The smallpox was infesting the northern pro vinces. At Huasco 400 persons were suffering from the epidemic. Frequent and strong earthquakes were felt at Valparaiso and the neighbouring districts. In Peru the utmost exertions were used by the Government to have all war vessels in readiness, when it is ascertained how the Spanish Admiral will act on receipt of fresh instructions. Nothing farther had transpired relating to the difficulty between Spain and Peru. Valparaiso exchange on London 44id to 45d; on Paris, 4.65 to 4.70. Lima exchange, 37d per dollar. News from Santo Domingo announces that the Dominicans had entrenched themselves around Puerto Plata, but failed to do much damage. They had suffered considerably from five Spanish guns. The Spanish steamer Hamburg, arrived at Havana with 400 wounded and sick from Santo Domingo. A correspondent writing from Santo Domingo, says . that large numbers of rebels are preparing to make a last effort at Santiago de los Caballeros. The discouragement amongst the Dominicans gains ground, and the insurrection is fast coming to an end. At Demerera general business was quiet, rum was in fair demand, sugar dull, tonnage ample, weather showery but favourable to the crops. Freight of sugar to London 30d. Exchange on London 476 dots. A favourable change has taken place in the weather at Barbadoes, and the prospects of the planters were encouraging, The health of the island was good. Exchange on London, 485 dole. Rum, abundant. At Grenada, sugar cane, cotton, and cocoa were in a promising condition. Business was rapidly improving. The prospects of next year's crops at Jamaica was encouraging. Sugar sales, 255. to 265. per hundred pounds. Rum, 275. per gallop. Tobacco dull. Coffee scarce. Sales, 60s. to 625. Exchange, half per cent. premium for 90 days. LATEST FROM BERMUDA. LIVERPOOL, AUG. 11. The fine steamer Hayti, Captain Gilberry, be longing to the West India and Pacific Steamship Company (Limited), arrived in the Mersey last night, with dates from Bermuda to the 27th ult. She brings a large and valuable cargo, including upwards of 500 bales of cotton. The following blockade runners were at Bermuda :—The steamers Dieppe, Flamingo, Mary Bowers, and Lillian. The latter had put back in consequence of her crew having refused to proceed on the voyage. The steamer Let her Rip had arrived at Wilmington, and had been chartered by the Government for harbour duty. Captain Maffit, late of the Florida, had been ordered by .the Confederate Government to the James River, to take command of an ironclad gun boat building there. The steamer Helen had sailed for Wilmington. S PAIN. MADRID, AUG. 12. The frigate Carmen has received orders to sail fer the Pacific. A Catalonian commission has arrived at Madrid and will confer with the Government upon the means of terminating the industrial crisis. FRANCE. The bulletin of the Paris Observatory gives the following as the atmospheric state of Europe yes, terday A very heavy squall coming from the North of Europe has rapidly invaded the centre of the Continent, extending from the N.E, of France to the greater part of Russia. There is reason to fear that it will continue to fall as far as the on the wester n coasts o f E uro pe, and the mistral is l'auditerranean. Th e b aro meter has rapidly risen b an lo d win g barometrical that of pressures Provence. o i l l 'h t i h s e sq c n o a as ll t , s which probably probably is n o t i so l ate d, an d t he state of the winds Atlantic, make.us presume that another is following closely." _ _ chaplains ate fixed dec T r h e e e and of the ports, l t . t h h e ri s it: a r r ie c 1 s e o la t F th / e ot n ee a s v t a a i tes that by a recent 45 a 1 : 80(0) f o oa l f l nr o . w;: chaplains — indemnity ch a oi for lodging ; _ l i tonhd . e r : h ifin i eg e e f t of the fleet from B,ooofr. to 10,000 fr. a-year ; superior chaplains, and furniture, and Ist elms, 2,5e0fr.; 2d c l ass , 2.000 fr. They h ave an allowance for the wine and wax lights used at the altar. BOURSE, Aug. 11.—The arrival of English Con sole with a ri se o f h as f a iled to _produce any up . ward movement in this market, wh i t o c b h i s li t e il r l h e a o v n e ti b n e u e e n s in the same i nan i ma t e s t a te. Threes, for th e Ac count, are u nvar i e d at 66f. 45c. i‘ done at 1,005 f., and. are now at I,olof. Railway Shares show but slight variation, with little doing. Ttie market closed as follows : 41 per Cents .. 95 Do. end month.... per Cents Do. end month 66 40 Jredit 1907 5 0 00. end menth 1007 50 Bank Shares 3390 Credit oneier 1215 Roman liA ILI Italian Loan 6B )o. end month 6B 35 Ditto Threes .. Now Mexican .... 66 25 ltassiau -- Austrian ipanish Threnti 49 5° Houle Debt Deferrel - VATB. Cash. Account. 885 885 Orleans • 1 Northern Lyons and Mediterranean --- New ditto Southern Western Eastern Sardinian Austrian Low bard 638 75 .. 538 75 North of Spain Saragossa.... 507 50 .. 607 50 Ditto to Barcelona ,t t I 232 60 „ 235 980 - .. - - 912 50 .. 916 25 LITERATURE, A National Benefactor's Autobiography. Passages of a Working Life during llatf-a Century. By Charles Knight. Vols, 1. and U. Bradbury and Evans. Beginning life as a publisher and bookseller, the writer of this manly and charming autobiography saes long since assumed to himself a yet more re cognisable position, and in his instance it is one of very considerable eminence, as a man of letters. Charles Knight we know no•w-a-days far more as a mate of letters than as a publisher and bookseller. Regarded in the latter capacity he is to be seen only, as it were, in perspective. It seems to be a long while now since he kept a printing establishment at Windsor and a bookshop in Pall Mall. We have to look beck beyond a considerable interval even to recognise him as he was when he had his name issued from the press, across his own counter in Ludgate hilltat the bottom far more frequently than at about tile middle of many a popular and widely circulating publication. Yet further back, he has here intro duced himself to us at the very commencement of these ingenuous memorials of bis Life—a life, let us say at once, as honourable from first to last as it has been laborious throughout—beyond the open ing of this present century, we there behold him as he appears to himself in his own retrospec tive glance as among the earliest of his personal recollections —we there behold him yonder dwindled down, as it were, by a mere effort of distance into the appearance of a little child in a white frock and a black sash I A half• orphaned child, then but very recently bereft of his young mother, and as, by a natural consequence of that event, fairl-1 idolised by the poor sorrow stricken wide ever his father—a Windsor tradesman, more not'xeable as a bookworm than as a bookseller. Between that far-off period and the present hour stretch back the years described in this truthful and Graceful autobiography. The interval—as will be found, indeed, to have been pretty clearly intimated here upon our author's title-page—the goodly in terval extending between the Now and lhen being mane up of fully Half-aaCentury of a genuine Working Life—led off, that half century of a Work ing Life, by a " Prelude of Early Recollections." The result of it ail being —what is here most interestingly related by Mr Knignt himself, but what we as among those numerous and grateful admirers of his,whom he has for years been helping so largely to benefit by his labours—knew to a great extent before any of these memorials appeared, knew, that is to say, from the mere facts and fruits of those very labours them selves. For, applying here that happy phrase of Wordsworth's about the child being father of the Ulan, may we not put it thus—that the little child in the white frock and the black sash has developed into a man sufficiently noteworthy to be entitled, as we have here eagerly and gladly entitled him at the commencement of these remarks, namely, us "A National Benefactor ?" Is be not so ? Answer this, —any number that may anywhere be found of really intelligent and educated Englishmen! For, in point of tact, in simplest truth, what are among the many conspicuous titles to our gratitude, towards . Charles Knight as a Popular 13 naefector ? He has done more practical good service than any other English Worker that could be named in furthering the great cause of Popular Education. He has done single-handed among Eugiistimen in this cause, in the interests of this cause, in its general and comprehensive deve lopment, what William and Robert Chambers have done together among Scototimen. And—without being in any way invidious while saying so—we would here add that Charles Knight has, in simple matter of fact, done yet more than those two emie ' neat popular publishers of Edinburgh. The com parison between the two houses, between that of the Englishman and that of the Scotchmeo, has been originated, not by ourselves, but by one of our contemporaries. Tnerefore it is that, without any imputation of appearing invidious while doing so, we may here strenuously protest, as we feel constrained in fact to do, out of a mere sense of justice, we may here strenuously protest against any pre-eminence being accorded ~to Robert Chambers over Charles Knight. They are worthy rivals, they are worthy contemporaries ; but, if their names must be brought thus into di rect comparison, pre-eminence ought rather, to our mind, to be accorded, not as one of our contem poraries has accorded it, to the reputed author of the '•Vestiges of Creation," bur, on the contrary, to Charles Knight, to that " good grey head," to that honest right hand from which have emanated other nobler works, either wholly original or thoroughly and laboriously edited, worts far and away beyond any deistical geological speculation upon cosmogony that ever was written For, has not Charles Knight taken his place recog nisably —among the Historians of England ? —among the Commentators on Shakspere ? among the most luminous of our National Encyclorrolists ?—among the most skilled Topo. graphers of London ?—besides squandering broad. cast over the land during fully one quarter of a century all those seeds of truth, scientific, artistic, and literary—seeds of truth Sown by him as the Pubtisher, as the Editor, as the Worker, in behalf and by the authority of the Society for the affusion of Useful Knowledge ? Tu him we are indebted for that famous Penny Magazine that was the pioneer and forerunner of all our cheap and wholesome, of all our instructive and entertaining periodical pablioations. Upwards •of thirty years ago the " Penny Magazine," under the direction of Charles Knight, enjoyed (in 1832) an average circulation of 200,000 ! Yet, as Mr. Knight has himself been enabled to say now of that famous periodical, " in it there has never been a single sentence that could linflame a vicious appetite, and not a paragraph that could minister to prej uaices and superstitions, which a few years since were common ; there have been no excitements for thelovers of the marvellous, no tattle or abuse for the gratification of a diseased taste for personality, and above all, no party politics." No wonder that in the following year the marvellous success achieved by the Penny Magazine induced a man of Mr. Knight's enterprise to embark upon even so gigantic an undertaking as the publication (begun in 1833) of the Penny cyclopacdia. Upon the labours of Charles Knight however, as Publisher, as Editor, as Author, it were superfluous here to expatiate. They are known intimately and they are honoured accordingly. His "Pictorial Stiakspere" is among the very noblest editions of the greatest of our national poets, the greatest of all poets. His " London" is the most comprehensive work upon the metropolis of Enga laud, of the British Empire, of the World. His "Shilling Library" will always " hold its own among cheap and popular repertories of that character. His "history of England" —utterly mistaken though we ourselves deem so very many among its views to be—is more intensely national, is more thoroughly popular, is more corn • pletely a History of England, of the English People, and not merely of the English Sovereigns, than any other work upon the same subject that could be very readily mentioned. His Once upon a lime aga i n turning her© for a moment to his less ambitious and more miscellaneous productiene— surely those who have read it, as we have done, with so thoroughly enjoyable a satisfaction, will speak of it only as a sort of model work of its class, being, as full as an egg is of meat, crammed from cover to cover with instructive entertainment. And Charles Knight's Autobiographic "Passages of a Working Ltfc During Halt a Carl tury"—a workowo.ehirds of which are happily completed, lying here before us in effect, as they do, in these two goodly volumes but just now submitted to our consideration—is a Literary production that in the pervading style and manner of it, is very much of a-piece with the charmingly discursive pages last mentioned. Only here, in this later work, there is of course the added interest of a consecutive narrative, perfected, so speak, by that nameless charm which is in separable from all autobiographic confidences. As , ffording a taste of the quiet humour flavouring the narrative of these memorials here—is Mr. Knight'a comical iLustrative mention of the manner in which jastice was administered some half a century ago by ,ne of the then magistracy : Under the guidance of the town clerk, corporate magis trates generatly got through their busineEs decently. Some times they made little slips. Late in the eyening an cirender was brought before one of our mayors, having been detected in stealing a smock-frock from a pawnbroker's door. "Look in 'Burns's Justice,' " said his worship to his son; "look in the index for smock-frock." "Can't find it, father. Not there." " What! no law against stealing smock-frocks ? my heart, young fellow, but you've had a lucky escape." Hardly 80 decorous appears to have been the system in vogue, about the same time, among those who had the management (even in a royal chapel) of the re ligious ceremonies of the Courch as by Law Esta blished : ex. gr,— I have seen, says Mr. Knight, a stranger civilian stalk (with his spurs on) into the choir o f St. G-iorge's Chapel. The spur was instantly dt , tected ; an& when the bewildered man was surrounded by a bevy of white surplices as he loitered in the nave, there was no help for him but to pay the spur-money. Such interruptions to the beauty and solemnity of the service were not sufficient to prevent their abiding impres sions; and thus the salt of devotion was not wholly washed out of me. I was, however, well nigh rushing into the desert, in going through the ceremony which was to keep me in the fold. I had diligently prepared myself for confirmation. Dr Fisher, Bishop of Salisbury, was to perform the rite. There was an absence of all solemnity, and even of decency, upon which I look back with disgust. I still see the bishop's officers driving the young people to the altar•rails as if they were sheep going to the fair ; the monotonous formality of the imposition of hands upon the huddled batches who knelt a few minutes, and then were chased back to their seats by the impatient ministers of the solemnity. Its failure altogether to satisfy my excited feelings compelled me into a passion of tears, and I went home and told my father that I would be a Quaker or Unitarian. I think that confirma tion confirmed whatever was sceptical in my composition ; and I had to escape into the region of natural piety, and long dwell there, before I could become reconciled to the estab lishment which could endure such profanations. As affording a very striking contrast between what is and what has been, the following account by Charles Knight of the duties devolving half a century back upon one of the then Volunteers will be read with the liveliest interest, we doubt not, by our Victorian Itifiamen. The Cambridge organisation was complete. At Windsor, the chief business of life appeared to be volunteer drills and reviews. My father was a lieutenant in our local corps, and I was ever at his side in those midsummer merchinga and counter-marchings. This volunteering was not altogether playing at soldiers. Our volunteer had some work to perform wholly unknown to the volunteer of Queen Victoria. He had to pipe-clay his white breeches and gaiters. He had to polish the bright barrel of his musket till he could see his face in it. "Brown Bess" was a later invention. He had to grease and flour his hair like a modern footman ; and then to wash the grease and flour out, till he was fit to stand at the court' er and sit at the desk, like an honest tradesman. He had no railway to carry him to a review; but marched through the night to Bulmarsh Heath, near Reading, to take his place amongst the other bold warriors of Berkshire. The discipline was not very exact. I have laughed, although I was scanda lised, to see an impudent corporal play tricks with his. lieutenant's queue. Rods were sometimes left in the bar rel when a volley was fired, to the no small danger of the colonel in front. We had a yeomanry corps, composed of the choicest spirits of our town. It was commanded by a pursy wine -merchant, who was not so well mounted as his men. On more than one occasion, when he headed a charge, they would open right and left, and leave him behind, when he roared, " Unparalleled in the annals of war, gentlemen." Full of fan as they were, our volunteers would have fought to death if the necessity had come. The volunteer of my boyhood was not altogether unprepared for war ; for there was a ball practice at a target fixed in a chalk-pit. But, as far as I recollect, the hits were as few as the ordinary calculation as to the musket-firing in a field of battle—that not one shot in a hundred told. But what of that? There was the same emulation as I have rejoiced to look upon in the noble rivalry of the Wimbledon meeting of 1563. Though sixty years have made all the difference between the musket and ►he rifle, and more difference in the skill of th 3 volunteer the emulation both of one period and the other is derived from our ancestry. From first to last, we have ❑ever found the interest of this work flag in the perusal of it. It is precisely the very kind of autobiography we should have expected from the hand of Charles Knight—un affected, manly, vivacious, entirely devoid of self glorification, nudisfigured by evidences of designed reticence or intentional concealment, and this for the simple reason enough that a manly, truthful, honest, open nature like that of Charles Knight had nothing whatever to conceal. Enough however, if we close these remarks of ours with two very brief but sufficiently significant observations—each of them distinctive of the man—each of them a very noble panygeric. Firstly, that it will be remem bered of Charles Knight that he was the friend and fellow labourer of Brougham. Secondly, and finally, that it was more than a mere radiant witticism of Douglas Jerrold's when—on being asked one night by our author, on their way home together, if he (Jerrold) 'could suggest a fitting epitaph for his companion's tombstone—Jerrold answered at the streetcorner, with a hearty grasp of the hand at parting—" Good Knight !" Toddleis• Highland Tour. With 21 illustrations. Pp. 150. Routledge and Co. Under this ridiculous title—as, " Tne Strange Adventures of Richard Toddles and Tom Stepwell during their Journey in Scotland"—the reader is here presented with a really useful as well as entertaining guide hook, showing him the way to a very cheap and, at the same time, a very delightful excursion. Daring the Nine Days occupied by Toddies and Stupwell in traversing the route marked out for themselves north of the Tweed—these two excursionists certainly contrive to make a Nine Day's Wonder of it, by seeing so much and paying so little. For, which in effect among the sights that ought to be seen upon a Scottish tour do these knapsacked lowlanders not see yonder in the land of cakes ? Loch Lomond, Glencoe, Fort William, Ben Nevis, Killiecrankie, the Trosachs, Holyrood, Melrose, Abootsford, Dryburgh—with a multitude of other famous localities, hill and dale, river and lake, inhabited building and deserted ruin—Toddles and Stepwell visit together. And yet—at the end of all their pleasant sightseeing and gad ding about, hither and thither, they have spent absolutely not a ten-pound note a-piece! The sum total of their expenditure from the huu of their starting upon their holiday expedition to that of their return homewards, being jotted down, item by item, during the course of their nar rative—the sum total being given upon the last page as, to a nicety, just exactly £lB 16s. 2d. It we are not very much mistaken, Mr M'Connell's pencil has contributed to this pleasant little gossip ping guide book through Scotland two or three at least out of the twenty-one illustrations scattered through it. INTERESTING DISCOVERY OF ROMAN REMAINS. —The excavations in Hot Bath-street for the new wing of the Bath United Hospital, the foundations of a large Roman building have been recently discovered. These foundations are exeeedingly strong, and indicate that the building to which they belonged must have been one of some importance. The base of pillar, turned upside down, and built into the foundation, was likewise found, and appears to have formed part of even an older structure. This week a further interesting discovery has been made, in the course of excavating the site of the house lately in the occupation of Mr William Foote, Lower Borough-walls. This discovery consists of a large portion of a beautiful tasse lated pavement. The pavement seems to have formed the flooring of a room about 12 feet square, and rests upon pil lars and hollow tiles—the tiles having been used for heating purposes. The design of the pavementis different to any found in Bath before : in the censre is a rose, which is surrounded by several borders of geometrical pattern. Enough of the Pavement remains to enable au accurate sketch of its entire design to be taken. The foundation of the dwelling just re moved was built upon this hollow Roman floor, and the pave went is in consequence much crushed and thrown out of its level. A second pavement, composed of larger tessera;, ad joins this first one, and eppears to have been the floor of a passage or vestibule loading to the apartment. Tracings of the designs are being taken, and the interesting remains will be preserved with jealous care, Some fragments of Roman pottery have also been turned up in the course of the exca vations. The discovery has come just in time for the meet ing of the British Association, and is to be regarded as a valuable audition to the relies conhecl ed with ehe Roman occupation of the city of King Bladud.—Bath Chronicle. A call of X 5 per share has been made by the Continental Bank Corporation, to be paid on or before the 10th proximo. During the last few days there has been very little animation in the Foreign and Colonial Pro duce Markets, Sugars have barely sustained former prices, while coffee has also been rather cheaper. lea has been in moderate request at steady rates, vhite in rice, fruit, spices, and ta►_ow there havj. wen no dealings of iuoportanee. P.Y.C. on thr spot is quoted 41a 9d, and last three months deli very 43a 9d per cwt. - Ovular HER MAJESTY. OSBORNE, August 11. Her Majesty and the Royal Family drove out in the morning and afternoon of yesterday. The Right Hon. E. Cardwell arrived at Osborne, and had the honour of dining with the Queen and Royal Family. Prince and Princess Leiningen also dined with her M jesty. Hie Royal Highness Prince William of Prussia, attended by Baroness Dobeneck and Major Von S'Aiweinitz, left Osborne this morning on his return to Germany. Her Royal Highness the Princess Mary will leave The Cottage, Kew, to-day, on a visit to their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales la Scotland. The Duke and Duchess of Manchester have been entertaining the following company at Kimbolton_ Castle, during the week;--Marie Marchioness of Ailesbury, the Marquis of Hartington, M.P., t he Earl of Coventry, the Earl and Countess of West moreland, Viscount Canterbury, Lord Proby, George Filzw:Eiam, Mr Leslie, &c. The Duchess of Wellington has left Apaley licu se for Glasgow, to meet his grace, who left town a few days since. Maria Marchioness of Ailesbury has left bolton Castle, on a visit to the Earl of Sandwich at llinchinbrooke. The Earl and Countess Spencer have been enter taining a large party at Althorpe Park during th e week. The Earl of Coventry left town yesterday for Hungerford, Berkshire. The Earl and Countess of Morley and 14dI Catherine have left towc for Sunning Hill; VLs e°ert. Boringdon has left for Scotland for the shooting season. Count Maffei has returned to town from Chives to take the direction of the Iralian Legation during the absence of his Excellency the Marquis d'Azegll°' Lord Llanover has left town for the Continent' her ladyship is at Llanover, near AbergavennY• Lord and Lady Tenaplemore will shortly le ave Bruton-street for Duribrody Park s , county Welter'a. THE PRINCE OF WALES AND THE SCOTTISII ARCLIFIIS.—It is intended to present a bonne t bi the Society of the Ancient Archers of Kilwinning to th° Prince of Wales on having accepted the office of patron (which the Prince Con s ort al s o h e ld). The bonnet is ll quisitely got up, and r t fl : cts the greatest credit on a cow cerned. It is in shape the same as worn by the arche r . s while shooting at papingo, and the inside is lin ed Witti, white satin, and in the centre the Prince of \Vale s' coat toi: arms is beauiiiully embroidered, and below th e wer " Ich Lien," 1183—th date when the society was orig . noted.—Edinburgh Daily Review. ONE uF THE HINDOO G ODS OF DE I " --- ; STRANGE AND HORRIBLE IDOL:—" With large protruding eyes, prominent nose, curved at the n o trils and point, wide mouth, thi c k, sensual -looking tipts!. two upper and two lower tusks, it pr e sented a very re h ea l d able and by no means pleasing appearance. Oa was a tiara studded with clev er ly chis e lled death'e heads utb J T v hideous cut, long ears were pierced with ornaments very hideou! cut, and from the cartilage of both were suspende d the v skulls. Numbers u t ch e ins were hung round the neck, antal a loose scarf fell across the broad chest from the le shoulder to the right. Massive bracelets ei-circled the writs and biceps, and the right arm was slightly raised, °r, giving emphasis to an oracle. A belt of sku l ls e acircle d the corpulent stomach, and the left hand rested on 4 Walk ing-stick or sceptre of stone,—Mr d'Almeida's book de scriptive of " Lite in Java," recently published by Hurs t and Blackett. SINGULAR WlLLS.—There 14tely died at Szepes Vallarya an old man of 78 years of age, whose will con' tained a clause leaving 100,000 cigars for those who migh t attend his funeral. The eccentic testator also expressed his desire that his friends should not leave the house of mourning without drinking to his memory all the Win e left in his cellar. It is said that the wish of the de ceased was entirely fulfilled.—Brazil and River Plate Mail. THE NEW ATTRACTION AT THE ALHAMBRA,—. The " little" wonder in every sense of the word for the lady is only 4 feet 8 inches in height--Margaret Douglas, is hastening merrily and gamely on to the com pletion of her herculean task of walking a thousand miles in a thousand consecutive hours. The bulletins announce the performance of 192 miles, but there is no appearance of effort or fatigue in the champion female pedestr.an of tlaa . world—who, in the opinion of some of the most experieccea: "professors," will bring her task to the same successful issue she did in Australia. The daisy and nightly increa s° ing number of visitors atl est in the most unmistak-able manner the awakening interest of the public to witness the' s W er. A u T u ER.- little lady's performance. DANGERS wreoFheaalmost every IyNearSOO.4iLSLOC: A l' a ‘ l ‘ from t s ah or even fatal accident at watering places aris ii4 dangerous habit of pl • head f emost into plungingo r water that is to ) shallow. Thi s s hould never be done Wl' less the water is at; least 4 or 5 feet deep. Surgical boars are full full of cases of broken v er t e b rae , but unluckily theY not known to the persons who need the caution. 5°14'14 his edition of Chelius, tells of a sailor, 4 0 years of age, is into the in good health, who jumped headl on g irorn 8 ship sea to bathe, a sail being spread a f ew fe e t belo w the stv lace 13:11 1j'es to receive the bathers and to p ro t ec t them fro m the sarks' thr os n bachk tti It is supposed that his head wa s violently juiroediatell' coming in contact with the wate r o r sa il, as h e became motionlese. When got on deck, A lt the e a o bserve of the limbs and trunk blow the shoulders vrefa to be paralysed, and resuiration was performed 11 twe he' diaphragm alone. The ci r c u l a tion and temp eraturere natural, and the senses perfect. in a few hours after theh occurrence of the accident, vomiting commenced, encil; came more frequent till he died at the expiration 0f..11,1 cer vit , . hours. Upon examination, the fourth and filth vertebiaa were found completely crushed and forced for wards on the spinal marrow which was crushed and la°. rated. This preparation is , in St. ' ' Meura. Chowas s , i , a , Another man threw himself into a river to bathe fry—lie, height of 7or S feet, the water being only 3 feet deep• he came up to the surface and immediately fell b ack to tto bottom. The bystanders observing ho made no atte rallt t h swim, drew him out and lifted him insensible eP ° ' l , -- , t , e and after Ho d ed .n 10 hours and a half after the acciec% after death it was found that the fifth cervical vertebr". 11 . was broken across, and the two pieces were colliPlete crushed in upon the nal .So b beware of a ea "h der" in sb.allo-.v spi water. cord u . Pluns deep or not et all. —Medical Itnzes and Gazette. athers A at STAINED GLASS COMPETITION. 1. The L ora; the Committee of Council on Education desire t a ' obtain for the South Kensington Museum a design fa i r , : stained glass window, having a northern light. W it '. . semicircular head, and of the following dimensions 18ft Sin high to crown of arch, by llft w ide. 2. The winio ; way b.= seen on a staircase at the n orth-west corner of r G reat Northern Court. The archit ectural decorations of t i: , staircase will be of an Ital an Renaissanc the 33te cha h character. ter Th 01 _. subject of the design is fu rnished by p Ecclesiasticus, verse 24 to the end of the chapter. 3. '. 13 ,, a design is to be on the scale of one inch to the foot, aaL: coloured. It is to be accompanied by a full size cartoot!: the design of a sufficient portion to show the execttietdwitr. and a specimen of a p ortion of the design Wen :oil , glass, of the full size. 4. The com p etition is opea to Ar t . _ of all nations. 5 . A sum of £lO will be a warded for tea" d es ign which appears to be mos t suitable, and a sn ot ~, £2O for the next best desig. 6. The judges w ill be l ' il structed to award the priz n 3s to the designs solely 0 1 )0 _, artistic merits, without reference to the probable cost execution. 7. Each desig n must be accompanied bYbs'a, sealed tender stating the cost at which the design ear'olo. executed, the time the e xecution is likely to take, an d ten . name and address of t he artist. S. The designs and e., ders must bo sent to the South Kensington Museum ill or before May 1, 1865. 9. The names of the judges sv.„., be published hereafter. 10. The designs to which prizes are awa rded will become the property of the t ° partment, which however dues not bind itseff to eice °ll 0 either of them. —By order of the Committee of Ceut teil 0 Education. Wit all r• FRIGH TFUL OCCURRENCE AT CARRON •. ' to —On Wednesday night Mr James George Richaid : uf , deputy col-, ner for East Middlesex, held an iDquirY 3Leatla Duck Hotel, Upper East Smithfield, respecting tb° his life o f William Reardon, aged 45 years, who lust Deceased u nder the following frightful circumstances en was a labourer. •On Friday afternoon last he wager`4 gaged with other men on board the ship Clutha , 11 ,, it h. alongside the Carron Wharf, Lower y i ast S' y o f field (near St. Katharine's Docks) in raising a g i r l:it : r oe , pig iron from the hold of the vessel by meats Of a c an The men overloaded one portion, and they had le h ell ev bad tioned by Mr. Hickman, the stevedore. when t',', lo ll 6 d e ce3 s raised about a ton of metal the chain of the the uu c d snapped, and the whole mass of iron fell upon brain over crushing his head and scattering portions of his e,,500„ ihe lower part of the vessel. Death must have be , m tancous. Verdict, accidental death. "V TES A CT • s•''''' WEST INDIAN ENCUMBERED ....STA , „ et ' tb o of Antigua have saT ~ . 110 The Legislature of the colony for eturyie. k above acts, and passed the usual local act same into execution. THE SUN, LONDON, FEIDAY EVENING, AUGUST 12, 1864,